War in the Pacific Objectives Explain why Japan began a war with the U.S. List the reasons why the U.S. won the war.

War in the Pacific

Objectives

Explain why Japan began a war with the U.S.

List the reasons why the U.S. won the war

List 3 facts about America’s war with Japan.

Japan pre-1941

Militarism Imperialism Invasion of China Invasion of Korea Brink of war with USSR

Problems with America

In response to Japanese aggression in Asia, the U.S. froze Japanese asset and embargoed these products from going to Japan:Scrap ironOil

Negotiations went nowhere

Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor

U.S. Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Surprise attack…7:55 a.m., Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor

Japanese bombed Pacific Fleet and military airfields

U.S. casualties: 2,350 servicemen and civilians died; 1,178 wounded; 21 ships and 323 aircraft destroyed or damagedUSS Arizona sunk, killing 1,177

Japanese casualties: less than 100 men, 29 planes, 5 midget submarines

Pearl Harbor: U.S. reaction

U.S. declared war on Japanon Dec. 8, 1941

U.S. mobilizes for total war

Pearl Harbor: U.S. reaction

Executive Order 9066: Japanese living on the West Coast of the U.S. forced to move to internment camps

If you were FDR in 1942, what would you have done about the Japanese living in the U.S.? Why?

Share your answers with a partner.

Pearl Harbor: World reaction

Great Britain declared war on Japan on Dec. 8, 1941

Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S. on Dec. 11, 1941

Battles/Engagements

Doolittle raid – April 1942Battle of Coral Sea – May 1942Midway – June 1942Guadalcanal – Nov. 1942

Through 1942, the Japanese expanded their empire in Asia and in the Pacific, but after that:

Battles/Engagements

Solomon Islands – Nov. 1943Kwajalein – Feb. 1944Leyte Gulf – Oct. 1944Iwo Jima – Feb. 1945Firebombing Tokyo – March 1945

Note-check

Take a few minutes to compare notes with a partner. Clarify any info you don’t fully understand.

Japanese atrocities

Rape of Nanking

Bataan Death March

Kamikaze pilots

An honor to die for the emperor

Atomic bomb

Decision by Truman His justification: would save

American lives Dropped on Hiroshima on

Aug. 6, 1945; no Japanese surrender

Dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945; Japanese surrender

Death toll from bombs: approx. 214,000

End of the Pacific War

USSR declared war on Japan on Aug. 8, 1945

Japan surrendered Aug. 14, 1945

Deaths: U.S. approx. 500,000; Japan approx. 2 million

Summary/Discussion

Why did Japan start the war with the U.S.?

Why did the U.S. win the war?

Stump your partner

Take a minute to come up with 1 question. Then see if you can stump your partner.

We’ll then answer harder questions as a class.